elliptic, sharp-pointed, quite smooth at the upper side, 

 slightly villous about the veins at the under, finely sub- 

 serrulate, about an inch and a half long: petioles very 

 short, somewhat villous. Racejnes several on all the end- 

 branches, alternate, simple, spreading, twice shorter than 

 the leaves, one-ranked, manyflowered : pedicles somewhat 

 villous, 3-4 lines long: hractes oblong, sharp-pointed, very 

 smooth, generally of a pinkish hue; one upon the common 

 peduncle at the foot of each pedicle, 2-3 lines long, ovate, 

 concave; two opposite ones upon each pedicle a little above 

 the base, spreading; but little shorter than the others. 

 Calyx 5-cleft, quite smooth, of a dullish red colour, a line 

 and a half long: segments ovate, broad, bluntish. Co^ 

 rolla white, with a reddish tinge on the outside, sub-- 

 cylindrical, faintly ventricose, 4 times the length of the 

 calyx, 5-cleft at the mouth: segments ovate, bluntish, 

 Filaments ten, slightly affixed to the edge of the receptacles, 

 subulate, flat, upright, subvillous, but little longer than the 

 calyx: anthers lanceolately subulate, upright, bicornous, 

 but little shorter than the corolla, deep yellow. Germen 

 depressed : style filiform, scarcely longer than the corolla •< 

 stigma obtuse. 



